Third Annual Women's Alternative Investment Summit Returns to New York City

LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Women's Alternative Investment Summit is returning to New York for its third year on November 3 & 4, 2011 at The Pierre in midtown Manhattan. Last year, more than 250 senior women executives across the alternative investment spectrum - GPs, LPs, and the professionals who serve them - gathered to exchange ideas, nurture valuable networks, and participate in substantive, in-depth conversations about the changing global financial environment.

The Women's Alternative Investment Summit has attracted a select group of sponsors from the financial, legal, corporate, and non-profit sectors. The Summit's two Platinum Sponsors are Reed Smith, a top-15 global law firm with a large and respected alternative investments practice, and Rothstein Kass, a professional services firm that is consistently ranked as a top CPA firm to the alternative investment industry. Reed Smith returns for its second year as a lead sponsor of the New York Summit; Rothstein Kass is a previous Gold Sponsor of the Women's Private Equity Summit, the west coast "sister" Summit to the New York event.

Landmark Partners, a private equity and real estate firm specializing in secondary investments, returns for a second year as a Silver Sponsor. Also returning to the Women's Alternative Investment Summit are Educational Partners Kauffman Fellows Program at the Center for Venture Education and the Robert Toigo Foundation.

New to the New York Summit are three exhibitors: Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton,the leading provider of luxury home and lifestyle products; Ascendant ComplianceManagement, a compliance consulting firm to investment managers, broker dealers, hedge and private equity funds worldwide; and iLevel Solutions,the leading Portfolio Management Platform for the private equity industry.

The Women's Alternative Investment Summit opens on the evening of Thursday, November 3, 2011 with a networking cocktail reception at the restaurant Daniel, followed by a full-day program on Friday, November 4 at The Pierre. The conference closes with An Evening of Cocktails and Fashion, a special networking event at Akris, the women's clothing boutique and the Summit's Official Style Partner. A percentage of the evening's proceeds will benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.